OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of PalZ is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
On the dimorphic occurrence of the upper Tithonian ammonite genus Djurjuriceras Roman from the Blue Nile Basin (Ethiopia)	54
A new species of Cretaceoushormiops from the mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Arachnida: Scorpiones: Protoischnuridae)	22
Upper Frasnian Tornoceratidae (Ammonoidea) from the Sand Formation (Bergisch Gladbach-Paffrath Syncline, Rhenish Massif)	20
Morphology of the stem group echinoids Lepidocentrus eifelianus and Rhenechinus hopstaetteri from the Devonian of the Eifel region, Germany	18
Latest Triassic (Sevatian–Rhaetian) reef carbonates from the Northern Calcareous Alps (Austria), their mollusc dwellers, and their fate at the end-Triassic extinction event	17
Diversity of gobioid fishes in the late middle Miocene of northern Moldova, Eastern Paratethys—Part II: description of †Moldavigobius helenae gen. et sp. nov.	16
Unusual larviform beetles in 100-million-year-old Kachin amber resemble immatures of trilobite beetles and fireflies	15
Ooids forming in situ within microbial mats (Kiritimati atoll, central Pacific)	13
The first fossils of the most basal pseudoscorpion family (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones: Pseudotyrannochthoniidae): evidence for major biogeographical shifts in the European paleofauna	12
Enigmatic fragment possibly marks the first pterosaur record from the Lower Toarcian of Grimmen, NE Germany	11
Cheilostome bryozoan epibiosis on brachyuran crabs in the Paratethys Sea during the late Badenian (middle Miocene)	11
Retiolitid graptolites from the collection of Hermann Jaeger III. Paraplectograptus, Gothograptus and their relatives	11
A new deep-marine elasmobranch fauna from the Late Cretaceous of Bergen (Bavaria, Germany) dominated by squaliform sharks	10
Late Pennsylvanian fishes from the Finis Shales of North-Central Texas (USA)	10
Preface: Palaeontological papers written in honour of Professor Dr. Hans-Georg Herbig, a tribute and memorial	10
A new holocrinid sea lily from the Anisian (Middle Triassic) of Qingyan, south-western China, and the morphological variability of the distal nodal facets in the genus Holocrinus	10
Morphology and ecology of the bradoriid arthropods Spinospitella and Nikolarites from the Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 4) of North Greenland (Laurentia)	9
A reevaluation of the Late Jurassic dinosaur tracksite Barkhausen (Wiehengebirge, Northern Germany)	9
Semicosciniid bryozoans from the Middle Devonian of Rommersheim (Eifel, Germany)	8
Gross and microscopic anatomy of a tibia tentatively attributed to a cetacean from the Middle Eocene of Europe, with a note on the artiodactyl Anoplotherium and on the perissodactyl Lophiodon	8
Redescription of the actinopterygian fish Westollia crassa (Pohlig, 1892) (Aeduellidae) from the Permian sediments of Thuringia and its relationships to other Aeduellidae	8
Late Pennsylvanian (Gzhelian) Tubiphytes reef in southern Guizhou Province, China: new insights into a peculiar reef-building association and paleoenvironment changes	8
A new alcyonacean octocoral (Anthozoa) from the Late Silurian of Gotland, Sweden	7
Fusulinid biozonation of the Bashkirian–Moscovian successions from the Hadim Nappe, central Taurides, southern Turkey	7
The first cetacean from the early Oligocene of the SW German Mainz Basin: a probable cheek tooth of a mysticete (Mammalia: Cetacea)	7

Eocene tube-dwelling annelids (Polychaeta: Sedentaria) from the Black Hills, western Washington State: the first record of Neodexiospira from North America	7
Morphological analysis of Cricetodon aliveriensis (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the locality of Karydia (Rhodope, Northern Greece)	6
Special Issue: 19th International Congress on the Carboniferous and Permian, Cologne 2019. Palaeontological contributions	6
The ostracod genus Eucytherura G.W. Müller and the ‘Cythere complexa Brady’ problem	6
A new papionin molar (Primates, Cercopithecidae) from the Pliocene of Serbia	6
Bioerosion and encrustation signatures on Crassostrea gryphoides (von Schlotheim) from the Miocene Raghama Formation, northwest Saudi Arabia: description and paleoenvironmental implications	6
Fruit taphonomy and origin of hollow goethite spherulites in lacustrine sediments of the Maastrichtian Whitemud Formation, western Canada	5
A new Mesozoic scorpion from the Besano Formation (Middle Triassic, Monte San Giorgio UNESCO WHL), Italy	5
New proboscidean specimens from the Late Miocene of Romania: the huge-sized deinothere Deinotherium proavum, the rare “Mammut” cf. obliquelophus and the first description of the shovel-tusker Konobelo	5
The fossil record of ungulates from the late Pleistocene locality of Melitzia cave, Mani Peninsula, Greece	5
Two passeriform birds (Aves: Passeriformes) from the Middle Miocene of Austria	5
Bohemicardia hainense (Maurer) revisted: insights into ontogeny and variability of a Devonian hippocardiid rostroconch (Conocardiida: Hippocardiidae)	5
New thyreophoran dinosaur material from the Early Jurassic of northeastern Germany	5
Radiolarian cherts and associated siliceous rocks of the Rhenish Massif and Harz Mountains, lower Carboniferous (Mississippian), Germany	4
First Eugereonidae (Insecta: Palaeodictyoptera) from the Pennsylvanian (Late Carboniferous) of the Piesberg site near Osnabrück, Germany	4
Internal conulariid structures unveiled using µCT	4
A new species of swift (Aves, Apodidae) from the Early Pliocene of Langebaanweg, South Africa	4
Multiple skeletons of Rhynchaeites from the London Clay reveal the osteology of early Eocene ibises (Aves, Threskiornithidae)	4
Diversity of gobioid fishes in the late middle Miocene of northern Moldova, Eastern Paratethys – part I: an extinct clade of Lesueurigobius look-alikes	4
New Archexyelinae (Hymenoptera: Xyelidae) from the Triassic Madygen Formation of Kyrgyzstan	4
Exceptionally preserved extracellular bone matrix proteins from the late Neogene proboscidean Anancus (Mammalia: Proboscidea)	4
The locomotory apparatus and paraxial swimming in fossil and living marine reptiles: comparing Nothosauroidea, Plesiosauria, and Chelonioidea	4
Eifelosaurus triadicus Jaekel, 1904, a “forgotten” reptile from the Upper Buntsandstein (Triassic: Anisian) of the Eifel region, Germany	4
Burrows without a trace—How meioturbation affects rock fabrics and leaves a record of meiobenthos activity in shales and mudstones	3
A new lepisosteiform neopterygian (Actinopterygii) from the lower Toarcian Grimmen Formation (Lower Jurassic) of Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania, Germany	3
Progress in the study of the Devonian–Carboniferous boundary sections in the Berchogur Depression (Mugodzhary Mountains, western Kazakhstan)	3
Diversity dynamics of handsome fungus beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinelloidea: Endomychidae) during the Meso-Cenozoic period	3
First Eocene record of a bangialean rhodophyte (the endolithic microboring Conchocelichnus seilacheri) and coralline red algae from the Pacific Coast of North America	3
New and overlooked occurrences of the rarely reported protochelonibiine “turtle” barnacles from the Oligocene and Miocene of Europe	3
New Ordovician hyolith Elegantilites custos sp. n. and the palaeogeographic and stratigraphic distribution of the genus Elegantilites Marek, 1966	3
Placodus (Placodontia, Sauropterygia) dentaries from Winterswijk, The Netherlands (middle Anisian) and Hünfeld, Hesse, Germany (late Anisian) with comments on ontogenetic changes	3
Mandibular and dental characteristics of the Late Jurassic mammal Henkelotherium guimarotae (Paurodontidae, Dryolestida)	3
Peabody's legacy: the Moenkopi Formation (Middle Triassic, Anisian) tetrapod ichnofauna—updates from an extensive new tracksite in NE Arizona, USA	3
A unique pericyclid from the Viséan of the eastern Anti-Atlas (Morocco) and other Helicocyclinae n. subfam. (Goniatitida)	3
First report of turtle and sauropod track assemblages from the Early Jurassic of Guizhou, China	3
Historically transposed flipper pairs in a mounted plesiosaurian skeleton	3
Re-assessment of ammonoid specimens from the Early Carboniferous Protocanites Beds of the Badenweiler–Lenzkirch Zone (Schwarzwald, Central Variscan Belt): age constraints for a lithostratigraphic key	3
Additions to the early Miocene herpetofauna of Weisenau (Germany): urodeles and squamates from a rediscovered historical collection in Italy	3
Discovering a new fossil chironomid from Lower Cretaceous Lebanese Amber: Electroneura pinhoi sp. nov. Amaral, Silva & Baranov (Chironomidae: Tanypodinae)	2
A digging theropod? Enigmatic ankylosed phalanges from the Upper Cretaceous of Uzbekistan	2
The age of the Bailongbinghe Formation and the oil shales in northern Qiangtang (North Tibet)	2
New Pliocene Rhinocerotidae findings from the Iberian Peninsula and the revision of the Spanish Pliocene records	2
A new basal zatracheid temnospondyl from the early Permian Chemnitz Fossil Lagerstätte, central-east Germany	2
The pterosaurs of the Cretaceous Kem Kem Group of Morocco	2
Diversity and variability of grylloblattidan insects (Grylloblattida) from the early Permian Meisenheim Formation of the Saar-Nahe Basin (SW-Germany)	2
Malformed trilobites from the Ordovician and Devonian	2
Massive cryptic microbe-sponge deposits in a Devonian fore-reef slope (Elbingerode Reef Complex, Harz Mts., Germany)	2
A paedomorphic dwarf species, Gauthieria pumilio sp. nov. (Echinoidea: Phymosomatidae), from the Campanian (Late Cretaceous) of Hannover, Germany	2
Foraminiferal sequence of the middle–upper Viséan (Mississippian) of the Sikasya River Valley in the South Urals and correlation with the Belgian standard	2
Cymbospondylus (Ichthyopterygia) from the Early Triassic of Svalbard and the early evolution of large body size in ichthyosaurs	2

New species of small foraminifers from the Mechetlino Quarry section (Southern Urals, Russia): a potential candidate for the GSSP of the lower boundary of the Global Kungurian Stage	2
Microbial processes during deposition and diagenesis of Banded Iron Formations	2
Moscovian–Kasimovian boundary conodont assemblages from the Kalinovo section, Donets Basin, Ukraine	2
Mass occurrence of small isopodan crustaceans in 100-million-year-old amber: an extraordinary view on behaviour of extinct organisms	2
Oldest East Gondwanan pycnodont fishes (Neopterygii, Pycnodontiformes) from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) of Jaisalmer, western India	2
Houcaris gen. nov. from the early Cambrian (Stage 3) Chengjiang Lagerstätte expanded the palaeogeographical distribution of tamisiocaridids (Panarthropoda: Radiodonta)	2
The first fossil from the superdiverse clade Loricariinae (Siluriformes, Loricariidae): a new species of the Armored Catfish from the late Miocene of Paraná, Argentina	2
Stiffening in the carpus of Prosantorhinus germanicus (Perissodactyla, Rhinocerotidae) from Sandelzhausen (Germany)	2
A new conulariid from the Upper Mississippian (early Serpukhovian) of Central Russia (Moscow Basin): systematics, microstructure, and growth abnormalities	2
Late Early Devonian ostracodes from the Torkoz area (SW Morocco) and the Emsian/Eifelian boundary	2
A monospecific assemblage of cockroaches (Dictyoptera: Subioblattidae) from the Triassic of Kyrgyzstan	2
A new sponge genus from the Chengjiang biota with an intriguing combination of skeletal characters	2
The first Palaeozoic spider (Arachnida: Araneae) from Germany	2
A re-description of the teleosauroid Macrospondylus bollensis (Jaeger, 1828) from the Posidonienschiefer Formation of Germany	2
The first fossil false click beetle larva preserved in amber	2